Will all the Easter eggs be plastic this year?

I heard that it's a combination of bird flu and hoarding.

The bird flu seems to have raw milk in its vector, as well as something to do with parts of Canada where hatchling chicks are produced and shipped by mail. ???

It's also jumped to humans up there. No telling what Canadian chicken ranchers are up to.
 
Interesting how trash gets sent overseas (when they'll take it) and some gets recycled:


Note the respirators, eye protection, general worker safety, etc? Me neither. Thanks, globalism: the ultimate in NIMBYism!
 
Lalalalalalalalal
My fingers are in my ears - errr hands over my eyes!. LOL

The thread is digressing!

Just let me survive my turn on this earth and not kill someone accidentally?
At least I don't have to figure out how to make fire!
At least I don't have to figure out how to go live on another planet!
I try to think positive: Humans WILL figure it out....or die trying!!
At times I think we are all rather arrogant thinking we can change some grand plan we clearly didn't make, nor can we figure out and agree on.

BACK TO the EGGS!! My eggs are about .24-.28 a piece. I imagine Christmas egg nog is the culprit.

Over the years I did both real eggs and plastic eggs. Real when I was a new, enthusiastic mommy, plastic once the fourth kid was hatched and I'd had one too many years of Easter cheer and kids.
 
PP Why a "wow"?

Edited to say: This is why I am not fond of writing on threads: miscommunications and assumptions....no body language or state of mind context, reading another's mind or making assumptions..LOL
 
dilettante said:
Interesting how trash gets sent overseas (when they'll take it) and some gets recycled:


Note the respirators, eye protection, general worker safety, etc? Me neither. Thanks, globalism: the ultimate in NIMBYism!
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A few years ago, some regular ol' US citizen attached a GPS device to his garbage. He tracked its movements for weeks until it finally stopped someplace in Poland. He looked that place up and found that the US pays Poland an annual stipend for a plot of land where it seems a massive pile of US garbage just sits there. And at no point was there any indication that any sorting or recycling took place.

The device stopped pinging or whatever, so he doesn't know what, if anything, happened to it after it was dumped in Poland.
 
RadishRose said:
We have to stop the overuse of plastics, so NO plastic eggs! Please!
Chocolate eggs are a good substitute.....:sneaky:
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I bought a small bag of plastic eggs back when my youngest was 2yrs-old, so in the early 80s. I hid real eggs, but the plastic ones contained money. I re-used the same ones every year until the kids grew out of hunting Easter eggs, and I put them in a closet along with other holiday stuff.

Years later, I brought them out of storage when I foster-parented Paxton. Me and him glued them shut and attached little pink and green ribbons to the small ends of the plastic eggs and used them to decorate our "Easter Tree".

Now, the Easter Tree is in my closet. I showed it to Michelle just before our first Easter together. She uses it as a centerpiece for the table every year.

While I'm certain Michelle will pass the Easter Tree down to her favorite niece, there's no getting around the fact that those 1/2 dozen plastic eggs will see the inside of a garbage bin eventually. 😟
 
I'm making 48 devilled eggs for a party Saturday night. Since I like older eggs when I'm boiling them (I've found it's easier to get the shells off without the eggs looking like they've had smallpox), I bought three dozen last Friday. They were still fairly cheap, but not altogether cheap.

The easiest and surest way to get nice smooth eggs for making devilled eggs is to loudly declare that you're just boiling them to make a huge batch of egg salad for personal use. Repeat several times to make sure they hear. Don't EVER imply to the eggs that you're making devilled eggs and taking them to a party. They can hear you (I KNOW they're listening) and will willfully give you a hard time when you're peeling them. Anyway, that's my theory and I'm sticking with it!

Wish me luck.
 
I can't really think of this now when it's not even Xmas. Plastic eggs would be ok with me. My family used to make some pascal desserts calling for real whole eggs, but no one has done this in a long time so I won't be impressing anyone. :ROFLMAO:
 
Sorry, I didn't know there was an egg shortage. The egg cases in our grocery stores are jammed packed with eggs. ????????
As far as the Easter Bunny with his eggs, this is 2024, you just can't go around dumping any "egg" on people.
What kind of chickens laid them? Were they free range chickens? Were they happy chickens? What was the square footage of their coop? Did those chicken use antibiotics? What kind of feed did they have? Was it processed chicken feed?
And what about the egg's nutritional facts? Were these high or low calorie eggs? What was their fat content? Where's the listing of minerals in these eggs?
I guess it boils down to are you going to let a rabbit supply your eggs?
 
I just checked Walmart and it does appear that egg prices have gone up since I last bought some, but I still have enough for right now. I will be using some for the potato salad that i am making for the Christmas dinner with my daughter, son, and his wife, but we are still okay.
They are about $4 a dozen for plain large eggs and $7 for the farm-raised brown eggs.
I still would like to have chickens in the back yard, but my husband does not want chickens, and his dog would probably kill them unless we had them fenced in where Rusty could not get them.
 

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